Hi Jo-anne
We love Ferry Meadows and have been loads of times. Last year we went over August bank hol (wouldn't normally go in school hols, but had family and kids with us) - never again! The site was packed to bursting, with scores of kids on bikes racing around everywhere, including round the toilet block, with no parental supervision and causing a danger to themselves and others. One child on a bike nearly sent me flying when I came out of the toilet block, and I saw another child on a bike very nearly knocked over by a car as he (the child) zoomed across the access road on his bike without looking. I should add that fortunately the car driver was going very slowly.
The toilets and showers really suffered with the amount of people that were there, and the fact that it rained a lot. I was absolutely disgusted one morning to find a pile of excrement in one of the showers - I just could not believe my eyes. And several toilets were blocked with vast amounts of toilet paper piled into them simply for the hell of it - by kids, presumably. Toilet paper and general rubbish was scattered over the floors too. I didn't envy the wardens having to clean up all the mess.
It won't put us off going to Ferry Meadows again, but we certainly wouldn't go during school holidays any more.